Eye Wash
for Anthone, Marissa & Mona

growing up in my father’s bar
what has it done to my mind

oddest times, oddest thoughts

feel I’m corrupt, sullied mentally
can I be cleansed

can we wash our dirty thoughts
like hands or feet, our dirty faces

our minds fill up with feces

awful luck/step in mess dog left
grass to wipe soles off
wipe the smell away

seek a way to wash mine/minds
free of filthy dirty thoughts

with what/in what way
to renew/do we renew mind

songs/poems/praises/prayers

with language minds were sullied
with language cleanse minds again


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
7:35 p.m. 29.06.09